The password is a flicker of an eyelash.

Adrienne Rich
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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth. ✨ Adrienne Rich (2002). Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company
Life on the planet is born of woman. ✨ Adrienne Rich (1995). Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution, p.26, W. W. Norton & Company

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